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Rita Ora holds the grounds for the astir apical 10 singles successful the UK's Official Charts by a British pistillate artist
By Daniel Rosney
Eurovision reporter
Rita Ora volition execute a medley of immoderate of her biggest hits arsenic 1 of the interval acts astatine adjacent month's Eurovision semi-finals.
Rebecca Ferguson volition besides beryllium performing, successful her location metropolis of Liverpool.
Speaking connected the BBC's Eurovisioncast Podcast she said: "It's a solemnisation of Liverpool and Ukraine done music".
She volition sing a duet with Ukrainian creator Alyosha.
One of this year's hosts, Julia Sanina volition unfastened the archetypal semi-final performing with her set The Hardkiss.
Other Ukrainian artists who volition execute see Mariya Yaremchuk, OTOY and Zlata Dzyunka, arsenic the UK is hosting the opus contention connected behalf of Ukraine.
The BBC said it volition symbolise however the UK is "United by Music" - this year's slogan for the competition.
Singer songwriter Rebecca Ferguson began her vocation connected 2010's X Factor placing runner-up to Matt Cardle
"I'm hoping to compression into immoderate benignant of dress," Ferguson joked to the BBC, 8 weeks aft she gave birth.
"I'm looking guardant to it due to the fact that it'll beryllium my archetypal enactment lawsuit wherever I get to formal up due to the fact that I've conscionable been mummy for the past fewer weeks".
About 160 cardinal radical are expected to ticker the competition, making it 1 of the biggest TV audiences successful the world.
"I'm going to dainty it similar I treated X Factor due to the fact that erstwhile I'd spell connected signifier each I'd ideate was the workplace audience," Ferguson, who has 4 apical 10 albums successful the UK said. "That's the lone mode you tin get done a performance, different you'd ne'er get connected the stage".
Kate Phillips, BBC's manager of Unscripted, which includes absorption connected amusement and large events, said: "There won't beryllium a infinitesimal to miss during these precise entertaining and precise tense semi-finals."
The knock-out stages volition instrumentality spot connected Tuesday 9 and Thursday 11 May.
All the build-up, insights and investigation is explored each week connected a BBC podcast called Eurovisioncast.
Eurovisioncast is available connected BBC Sounds, oregon hunt wherever you get your podcasts from.
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